Vocal Chamber Music

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Requiem for My Love
MS, 1994

• Three Songs for High Voice
• Based upon poems by Mary Coleridge.

A Green Voice
MS, 1989

• Cantata for soprano and tenor with piano acc., based on four poems by James Hearst
• Composed for the formal opening of the James and Meryl Hearst Center for the Arts, Cedar Falls, Ia. Two perfs. were given there May 13, 1989. Soprano, Jean McDonald; Tenor, Gerald P. Kreitzer; Piano, Joan Smalley.

Metaphors
MS, 1988

• Three songs for soprano with piano accompaniment
• Texts by Arthur M. Sampley and C.M. Hutchings
• First performance, Apr. 7, 1989, during College Music Society Conf. at Trinity University, San Antonio, Tx. Soprano, Jeannine Crader; Piano, Harold Heiberg.

The New Love and the Old
Summy-Birchard, 1955

• Song for med. voice and piano
• Text by Arthur O'Shaugnessy.

Whether I Live
MS, 1953

• Song for high voice
• Text by Mary Coleridge.

The Ascension of Jesus
Dorn Pub. (1982), 1952

• Cantata for baritone, oboe, and organ
• Biblical text
• Won Honorable Mention in the annual Anthem Competition, The Church of the Ascension, New York City, May 1952
• First performance, Cedar Falls, Ia., May 18, 1952, John Powell, bar., Myron Russell, ob., George W. Samson, Org.

The Ascension of Jesus
Dorn Pub, 1982

• Transcribed for Bar., Ob., Pno., and Vcl., 1982.

Of the Turbid Pool & Mad Nite
MS, 1941

• 2 songs for high voice; texts, Walt Whitman; first performance, Cincinnati, Ohio, Elizabeth Pugh, Sop.

8 Early Songs
MS, (ca. 1935-1940)

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Te Deum Tejas
Dorn Pub. (1982). 1981

• 8 songs for soprano, flute, percussion
• Texts by composer
• First performance, Denton, Tx., Feb. 3, 1982, Laurel Miller, sop., Karen Clardy, fl., Robert Schietroma, Perc.

Scatter The Petals
Dorn Pub. (1982), 1968

• 4 songs for tenor, harp, viola, and alto flute
• Poems by James Hearst
• First performance, Denton, Tx., Jan. 9, 1969, Grant Williams, ten., Charles Kleinsteuber, harp, George Papich, viola, George Morey, alto fl.